.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 369 223
Rank change year-on-year +113 -146 -68
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 749 302 836
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 0.70% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.04% 4.07% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 688 274 595
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £71,250 £84,688 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £107,125 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £63,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.39% +10.43% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,642 7,423 14,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.24% 17.14% 21.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7,708 4,897 9,020
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.74%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 5 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +90 193 £56,250 -2.17% 71
North of England +53 185 £55,000 - 63
East of England +55 107 £60,000 +14.29% 31
Midlands +32 100 £55,000 -8.33% 26
London -119 91 £77,500 -3.13% 122
North East +4 74 £66,250 +32.50% 12
South West -27 74 £52,500 - 14
North West -7 73 £55,000 - 36
West Midlands +11 59 £55,000 -8.33% 17
East Midlands -4 41 £50,000 -16.67% 9
Yorkshire -19 38 £47,500 -20.83% 16
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.74%) IIS
3 11 (1.47%) CMS
4 7 (0.93%) Confluence
4 7 (0.93%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.53%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.53%) Kentico
5 4 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.40%) DNN
6 3 (0.40%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.40%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.40%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 612 (81.71%) Azure
2 215 (28.70%) Azure DevOps
3 150 (20.03%) GitHub
4 133 (17.76%) GitHub Copilot
5 132 (17.62%) AWS
6 129 (17.22%) Azure AI
7 71 (9.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 35 (4.67%) Azure Logic Apps
9 33 (4.41%) Power Platform
10 29 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
11 27 (3.60%) Power Automate
12 24 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
13 23 (3.07%) PowerApps
14 22 (2.94%) Serverless
15 21 (2.80%) Azure Key Vault
16 18 (2.40%) SaaS
17 17 (2.27%) Google Play
18 14 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
19 13 (1.74%) Azure Functions
20 12 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.01%) Internet
2 6 (0.80%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.40%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.27%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 422 (56.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 359 (47.93%) MongoDB
3 150 (20.03%) Elasticsearch
4 136 (18.16%) SQL Server
5 27 (3.60%) Relational Database
6 26 (3.47%) Power BI
7 21 (2.80%) MySQL
8 17 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.60%) Redis
10 11 (1.47%) NonStop SQL
11 10 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.07%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.93%) GIS
15 3 (0.40%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.40%) ZAP BI
16 2 (0.27%) MariaDB
17 1 (0.13%) HBase
Development Applications
1 73 (9.75%) Git
2 15 (2.00%) JIRA
2 15 (2.00%) NUnit
3 12 (1.60%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.34%) GitLab
5 7 (0.93%) MSI
5 7 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 6 (0.80%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.67%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.67%) Postman
7 5 (0.67%) Snyk
8 4 (0.53%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.40%) JUnit
9 3 (0.40%) Selenium
9 3 (0.40%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 105 (14.02%) Finance
2 77 (10.28%) Social Skills
3 54 (7.21%) Advertising
4 42 (5.61%) Games
5 38 (5.07%) Marketing
6 33 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (4.01%) Retail
8 24 (3.20%) Public Sector
9 19 (2.54%) Law
10 14 (1.87%) Aerospace
11 11 (1.47%) Banking
11 11 (1.47%) Music Industry
12 10 (1.34%) Legal
13 7 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.67%) Local Government
14 5 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.53%) Electronics
15 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 634 (84.65%) Developer
2 522 (69.69%) .NET Developer
3 98 (13.08%) Senior
4 70 (9.35%) Senior Developer
5 69 (9.21%) Software Developer
6 62 (8.28%) C# Developer
7 49 (6.54%) Lead
8 46 (6.14%) C# .NET Developer
9 41 (5.47%) Full-Stack Developer
10 38 (5.07%) Software Engineer
11 32 (4.27%) Lead Developer
12 30 (4.01%) Senior .NET Developer
13 29 (3.87%) Senior C# Developer
14 25 (3.34%) .NET Software Developer
15 22 (2.94%) Senior Software Developer
16 20 (2.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 20 (2.67%) Lead .NET Developer
17 18 (2.40%) .NET Software Engineer
18 17 (2.27%) C# Software Engineer
18 17 (2.27%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 749 (100.00%) .NET
2 497 (66.36%) ASP.NET
3 434 (57.94%) ASP.NET Core
4 231 (30.84%) CSS
5 229 (30.57%) HTML
6 221 (29.51%) Entity Framework
7 206 (27.50%) Blazor
7 206 (27.50%) React
8 193 (25.77%) AngularJS
9 179 (23.90%) RESTful
10 167 (22.30%) ASP.NET Web API
11 163 (21.76%) Vue
12 151 (20.16%) Node.js
13 142 (18.96%) .NET Framework
14 126 (16.82%) ML.NET
15 107 (14.29%) LINQ
16 77 (10.28%) REST
17 44 (5.87%) JSON
18 32 (4.27%) WPF
19 27 (3.60%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.48%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (8.41%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.67%) Mobile App
5 19 (2.54%) Cloud Native
5 19 (2.54%) Digital TV
6 17 (2.27%) iPhone
7 15 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.87%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.47%) Sports Betting
10 10 (1.34%) BBC
10 10 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.34%) Social Media
10 10 (1.34%) Social Network
11 9 (1.20%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.07%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.93%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (0.93%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.07%) Windows
2 17 (2.27%) Android
3 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (66.89%) Full-Stack Development
2 393 (52.47%) Agile
3 268 (35.78%) CI/CD
4 255 (34.05%) DevOps
5 208 (27.77%) Microservices
6 163 (21.76%) AI
7 137 (18.29%) Machine Learning
7 137 (18.29%) Multithreading
8 102 (13.62%) Scrum
9 92 (12.28%) Software Engineering
10 80 (10.68%) OO
10 80 (10.68%) TDD
11 66 (8.81%) BDD
12 62 (8.28%) Kanban
13 58 (7.74%) Problem-Solving
14 57 (7.61%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
15 56 (7.48%) Mentoring
16 48 (6.41%) SDLC
17 47 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
17 47 (6.28%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 698 (93.19%) C#
2 488 (65.15%) SQL
3 257 (34.31%) JavaScript
4 197 (26.30%) TypeScript
5 25 (3.34%) Python
6 18 (2.40%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.74%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.60%) Java
9 10 (1.34%) VBA
10 9 (1.20%) Bicep
11 4 (0.53%) Bash
11 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.53%) Ruby
11 4 (0.53%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.40%) Go
12 3 (0.40%) VBScript
13 2 (0.27%) C
13 2 (0.27%) Dart
14 1 (0.13%) Delphi
14 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 61 (8.14%) Degree
2 28 (3.74%) SC Cleared
2 28 (3.74%) Security Cleared
3 22 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.07%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.80%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.40%) ICAEW
6 3 (0.40%) OCP
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.14%) QA
2 24 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.93%) NCSC
3 7 (0.93%) WCAG
4 4 (0.53%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.40%) GDPR
5 3 (0.40%) NIST
6 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.13%) Basel III
System Software
1 185 (24.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 163 (21.76%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.40%) Ansible
2 3 (0.40%) Grafana
2 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 497 (66.36%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.68%) Facebook
3 44 (5.87%) Google
4 21 (2.80%) YouTube
5 11 (1.47%) Adobe
6 10 (1.34%) Apple
6 10 (1.34%) Sony
6 10 (1.34%) Yahoo!
7 7 (0.93%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.80%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.53%) Sitecore
9 4 (0.53%) Splunk
10 3 (0.40%) Alterian
10 3 (0.40%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.40%) Workday
11 2 (0.27%) Databricks
11 2 (0.27%) IFS
11 2 (0.27%) Oracle
11 2 (0.27%) Sage
11 2 (0.27%) Veracode